The Bible and Culture

January 1970 Archives

The Greer-Hurd Forum was an outstanding success this years, thanks to all the hard work of Bob Stewart pictured at the far right on the bottom row of this picture. Excellent papers were presented by Amy Jill Levine from Vandy […]

http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.baptistmessage.com/node/6088&ct=ga&cd=20uTuQw7uKg&usg=AFQjCNE0o1UUurO3zB6Ml6smU3-Xh8z_kQ I will be preaching in chapel at New Orleans Baptist on Thursday and speaking at New Orleans Baptist this Friday. John Dominic Crossan and I will be discussing the actual message and meaning of Jesus. Above is a link […]

Eastern Turkey is a fascinating place, and increasingly it is being recognized as one of the cradles of ANE civilization. We now have considerably more grist for that mill with the announcement of the discovery of a Temple 11,500 years […]

( Overview of Nicea (Iznik), and its beautiful lake, on the shore of which the Council of Nicea was held in 325 A.D.) So much ofpop psychology these days is all about encouraging you to ‘accept yourself […]

I watched the mea culpa of Tiger Woods this morning, all 14 or so minutes of it. It was definitely the material of a country song. I am glad Tiger has begun to own his problems and misbehavior, though […]

They knowhow to shovel that stuff The dirt and the mud and the grime, They’reprobing for a shady character Or just another citizen to slime. They’llbury your reputation After poking around in your past […]

We have begun the Lenten season today. The word comes from the English term lengthen, referring to the season of the year where we have the lengthening of the days. The church has made this a season of prayer, fasting, […]

Check out this tour of various parts of the Papal Basilica known as St. John Lateran, one of the oldest church complexes in the world. http://www.vatican.va/various/basiliche/san_giovanni/vr_tour/index-en.html

http://www.brazospress.com/Book.asp?isbn=978-1-58743-274-3 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/isbn=1587432749/bakerbookhouseA So Fat Tuesday is coming, and hard on its heels Lent– the season for repentance, amendment of life, changing one’s lifestyle, fasting, and the like. In other words, the perfect season to get our Christian house in order […]

(This is an edited version of the lecture I gave twice in Houston this past week, with good response). Almost all forms of ancient religion were all about priests, temples, and sacrifices. This was as true of Greek religion […]

Myth Nine: Since we are saved by grace through faith, God will not hold us responsible for what we do with our money after our conversion.We will not be saved or lost by our deeds, or misdeeds. This is […]

James Howell is the minister of my home church in Charlotte. Here is a thoughtful two part post he has sent out recently (used by permission). Stewardship is a spiritual practice? It feels more like the inevitable business side of […]

It’s back for its sixth and last season, and thank goodness because otherwise much of this year’s TV fare has been forgettable, dreadful, banal, hopeless, pitiful, and vulgar to throw out only a few applicable epithets. J.J. Abrams’ LOST however […]

http://www.brazospress.com/Book.asp?isbn=978-1-58743-274-3 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/isbn=1587432749/bakerbookhouseA There are certainpsychological dynamics which drive any culture, and two of the most obvious ones inour culture are the consumer and competitive drives. There are an awful lot of Christians who areconsumer junkies or competition junkies. They have […]

I will be coming to Houston tomorrow for the Celebrating a Call to Lay Ministry Conference which begins Thursday evening and continues all day Friday. I will be speaking Friday on a nice non-controversial topic— ‘In Christ there is neither […]

Two of the things I had to learn whilst owning a coffee shop in Wilmore Kentucky for five years was: 1) what are the best coffee beans; and 2) what is the story, the history of coffee? On the latter […]

http://www.brazospress.com/Book.asp?isbn=978-1-58743-274-3 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/isbn=1587432749/bakerbookhouseA In our discussionof the ministry of Jesus in ‘Jesus and Money’ we pointed out that Jesus announced that the coming ofthe Kingdom involved the coming of the year of Jubilee (Lk. 4). And we can see further reflection […]

Guns and Religion--- Enough is Quite EnoughI was sitting at the traffic light when a pickup pulled up next to me. On the back of the cab window was a bumper sticker saying 'Guns and religion. Now more than ever.' Then I found the picture you see above, and then this one ...

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About Ben Witherington on The Bible and Cultutre

Bible scholar Ben Witherington is Amos Professor of New Testament for Doctoral Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary and on the doctoral faculty at St. Andrews University in Scotland. A graduate of UNC, Chapel Hill, he went on to receive the M.Div. degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. from the University of Durham in England. He is now considered one of the top evangelical scholars in the world, and is an elected member of the prestigious SNTS, a society dedicated to New Testament studies.